What's your best style?

MidnightMuse · Jul 9, 2006

When you're writing, and even when you're not, is your source of humor a sarcastic one, a parody-view of regular life events, or just a particularly twisted view of everyday things?

I think with my own humor style, it's mostly a twisted view of everyday life. I can sometimes be sarcastic, but not too often because I'm trying to avoid hurting anyone's feelings (not that all sarcasm does by default) and occasionally I can parody things around me, but I think the majority of what my mind produces would have to be a twisted view of the mundane.

You?

Cath · Jul 9, 2006

In writing, I'd agree, probably the latter. I particularly like to take everyday things to wild extremes to highlight how silly they can be.

I love the satirical and the sublime - that's what I'd like to write. I've a wee way to go, though.

aka eraser · Jul 10, 2006

I guess I'm in the warped-worldview camp. Most of my stuff is self-deprecating and fairly gentle - written for a family audience. If I'm the central buffoon, I can poke fun at others as well without seeming to target them.

While I can appreciate words etched with acid, writing them isn't my style unless I'm angry.

JEP · Jul 29, 2006

I kind of cater to the more sociopathic aspects of my personality, describing things that were incredibly irresponsible, socially unacceptable, probably illegal but also wildly entertaining, leaving me rather unrepentant about it. It's amazing what people will let you get away with if you describe it eloquently enough. Basically, my work could be described as the antics of Beavis and Butthead as narrated by Frasier Crane.

triceretops · Jul 30, 2006

My satire contains loads of irony. Simply put, I cannot, and will not write a book that does not contain some measure of humor. It almost always revolves around the personality conflicts of my charaters, and their need to understand each other. My characters are so at odds with each other at times, that the reader is apt to think "what more could possibly go wrong here in this setting?" Even my sex scenes are teases or outright disasters. My agent has told me to tone it down several times since I'm apt to go "over the top."

Tri

Jamesaritchie · Aug 3, 2006

style

A combination of Mark Twain and Patrick F. McManus. Deliberately so and naturally so.

dclary · Sep 1, 2006

The comedy I write is screenplay comedy, and as such, I've found that the smartest, funniest scripts try to incorporate as many comedy styles as possible. Look at A Fish Called Wanda. You've got slapstick, racial humor, shock humor, satire, insult comedy, animal antics, hinjinx, hibrow comedy.

I think as comedy writers we owe it to our readers to give them as many flavors of funny as we're capable of.

JDCrayne · Sep 3, 2006

I started my professional life as a technical and commercial artist, so a lot of my humor is sort of sight gags in print. I like people to visualize funny situations. I try to keep it on the gentle side, since both in mysteries and science fiction I write for a general audience and that's what people expect from me by now.

What's your best style?

MidnightMuse

Midnight Reading

Cath

The mean one

aka eraser

Fish Whisperer

JEP

triceretops

Jamesaritchie

dclary

Unabashed Mercenary

JDCrayne

Indonesian Yak Keeper